Twitter Is Finally Dead - Twitter is fully X.com now

[Tom of Temecula]

Like a venomous puss moth emerging from its hard cocoon, the social network formerly known as Twitter has fully metamorphosed into X.com. Various elements of Twitter had already embraced the rebranding, and the company has been using X.com links since early April. But now the domain has flipped over entirely, marking the end of a tumultuous transition period—and erasing the last vestiges of the bird app. “We are letting you know that we are changing our URL, but your privacy and data protection settings remain the same,” reads a message at the bottom of the X login and home pages.

The switchover has been a long time coming. X owner Elon Musk announced the shift from Twitter to X last July, a few months after he officially acquired the company. But the billionaire has for decades harbored a dream of creating an “everything app” by that name, and Twitter is his vessel.

“The Twitter name made sense when it was just 140-character messages going back and forth—like birds tweeting—but now you can post almost anything, including several hours of video,” Musk wrote on the newly redubbed X last summer. “In the months to come, we will add comprehensive communications and the ability to conduct your entire financial world. The Twitter name does not make sense in that context, so we must bid adieu to the bird.”

Twitter under Musk has indeed added video and voice calls to its roster of features. It has also replatformed conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones, fostered a welcoming environment for porn spam accounts, made an absolute hash out of verification, introduced a monetization system that encourages rampant engagement farming, gutted its trust and safety team, allowed a surge in hate speech on the platform, designated NPR as “US state-affiliated media,” removed news headlines entirely and then reintroduced them in a weird spot, kneecapped a bunch of fun bots and third-party apps by introducing wildly expensive API changes while giving blue-check verification to AI-generated chum, pivoted to video, introduced an AI model that will help you do crimes, and overseen a decline in usage of more than 20 percent in the US, according to app analytics firm SensorTower.

https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-dead-x-elon-musk/

[PJMcK]

1. I've never used this platform

I never will.

It's bullshit, dangerous and, in my opinion and for my life, it's entirely useless.

Have fun losing money, Elon.

[intrepidity]

2. Musk is a parasite.

Insideous ugly parasite.

[Submariner]

3. $44 billion is a chump change investment

from a Q-Anon Afrikaner apartheid supporter, if it can be used, as it is attempting to do now, to steal the election for TSF.

Musk seems to me to be willing to damage the shit out of the Tesla reputation being a maga twitter troller, if it can score anti-Biden pro-Trump points within maga-world

With the TSF back in charge, Musk and the maga-nazi universe would make that $44 billion back a hundred fold.

[Think. Again.]

4. Okay.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. I still call it

Xcrement

[bigtree]

6. so, Twitter has a new url?

...got it.

[uncle ray]

7. if he's gonna dead name his child, I'll dead name his social media platform.

[Walleye]

8. He's totally screwed it up for me I can't log on at all. I never posted anything on it

[Midnight Writer]

9. "the ability to conduct your entire financial world"? Oh, joy!

Just what I've been waiting for!

A chance to turn all of my financial information over to a billionaire's vanity project.

What other future wonders does Elon hold in store for us?